Tuesday, May 29, 2012

On our way to the concert venue I saw this guy that looked freakishly familiar. I gave him the weirdest look of the century trying to figure out how the heck I knew him.. By the time I was standing right in front of him I realized why he was so familiar. Yea, it was Jon Foreman. The lead singer of my dear dear Switchfoot. ;P I was like, “Heeeeyyyy..!” and he was sorta on the phone, so he was like- “heyy creepy kid who’s giving me weird looks. I suppose your brilliant mind is figuring out right about now that I’m Mr Foreman, lead singer of a insanely wonderful band. Yepp.” Nahh, he said hi.
I’ll have you know that was not the highlight of the evening, so just prepare yourself for much awesomeness. (humor me)

"Happiness is like peeing in your pants.. everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth." -Jon Foreman of Switchfoot

After waiting in line in the alley, we presented our tickets to the ticket dude and proceeded to the hand stamping dude. “Both hands on the table” He says, with blue chicken stamp at the ready. To be honest I’m feeling somewhat on the defensive because I’m not used to the feeling of being herded and marked, but I place my hands on the table and with a grin I say nothing and just wait for it. After a moment, “..Uhmm, yeah, you’ll need to move some of that. I gotta stamp your hands…” he says. heheh. I secretly enjoy it when my bracelets are a bit of a nuisance :}

We were really close to the stage, it was awesome. Rocket Summer opened, and they were alright. I found it rather humorous that the lead singer was fixing his hair the whole time :) He rode the crowd though, and I think Eva helped out with that.
James- “all the guys are trying really hard not to touch his butt right now”. (I laugh and silently notice that many of the girls are trying really hard to touch his butt).

And then of course the real party began when Switchfoot finally came out- that place was crazy, what a fun concert. The venue is small enough that we were able to get really close, it was great. They played a great mix of songs, and after hearing some of it live, the new album is growing on me. Ok so I love it. like all the others before it. AGH!

whoop! mom took all these pictures from the balcony and a couple from the floor.. she's awesome-

After the show we did what every good stalker would- wait outside the bus hoping the band would come out. And it was worth the awkwardness because a couple of them did come out and talk to everybody and take pictures and all that, and there was a decent size crowd too.

drew shirley, lead guitarist. me, evajo.

jerome fontamilas, keys.

This guy said he could see me during the whole concert, that my hands were in the air most of the time. I know this to be a bit of an over-statement (just a bit), but I wasn’t about to argue with the man. My arms are kinda hard to miss. And yes I know that sentence was a little bit odd.

We also caught the after-show. Yep, we’re awesome. And you’re jealous. Admit it.
Foreman on the acoustic with no microphones or amps, only a handful of people, in the quiet park with a big random metal statue of random metal animals…. Yeah, you’re jealous.

that would be my friend James right behind Foreman.

sam, me, jon foreman, eva.. kindly ignore the fact that I look like a creep.

Saturday, May 19, 2012

So, miniature road-trip with my favorite bunch of maniacs?.. I think yes. It was awesome. Me, my friends James, Evajo, and Sam, Flash and my parents
made the two hour drive to the city I grew up in (in our big, huge, ugly, and oh-so-wonderful
12 passenger van).
Why? Well I’m glad you
asked. SWITCHFOOT was playing a concert
in that great little city. We go there
so often it still feels like home, so making the trek last month for one of the greatest
bands around was a no brain-er ;)

me and james :D

..sam is examining my suspenders.

say cheese <3

...he's trying to braid eva's hair. We got a little bored in the car ;}

..here's sam's attempt at my hair. there are so many short layers, and then all the dreadlocks and beads didn't leave much for him to work with... I found it amusing that he even tried XD

Us brave teenagers wandered the streets of the downtown area
while we waited for the concert to begin.
We hit some favorites-
Leo’s; undoubtedly still has many
of the same clothes and etc as it did when it opened in the 40’s. It’s just a little door on a side street with
no store front. You walk up REALLY loud
creaky painted yellow sparkly stairs, past sharpie graffiti and hippie wall
hangings, into the store (and the home of a couple cats and surviving flower
children) known to the world as Leo’s.
There’s stuff everywhere. Hanging
from the ceiling, stuffed in trunks and book shelves, packed onto clothing
racks and scattered across tables and a couch and here and there. It’s really not a huge place, but it’s packed
tight. One time I took a friend up there
and she wanted to leave pretty shortly after.. and very possibly puke. She was worried about getting fleas. It’s a legitimate concern.. ;)
That place is awesome, they loved it.

being cool at Maude V.

We also went to the store where I sell some of my Crash
Landing stuff- Maude V. It’s just as cool as Leo’s to be perfectly
honest, though not quite as sanitarily questionable. There’s a random staircase in one of the
dressing rooms, it seriously doesn’t go anywhere- just into the wall lined with
mirrors. OH YES.

After examining every
nook and corner of the store you have to go to the extremely low ceiling-ed
basement and explore all the crazy stuff they have for rent. Like for use as costumes and such. I think there’s more in the basement than in
the actual store. I borrowed a pair of
combat boots from them for the fashion show last summer.

Yesterday I went to a wedding for a friend of mine. It was a very nice wedding, and after-party
(I can call it that, right?) was pretty fun.
I helped make the bridesmaids dresses and helped alter the store-bought wedding
dress, so that’s partially why I’ve been so busy. Actually that’s a lot of why I’ve been so
busy...

Along with needing to hem it a bit, the dress was too big up
top. So after much debate we ripped open
the back of the dress and removed part of the zipper. That was my job :) heheh. Needless to say, Bethany was a bit nervous
about me coming anywhere close to her dress with a seam ripper.

Where the zipper had been, the fabric was folded back in an
upside down triangle to make way for my favorite way of closing dresses…. A
lace-up! Yay for Bethany for being
brave! :D

She attached plastic rings under the opening and made a bias
ribbon (the one in the picture is not the one she used) to thread across the opening.
It’s long enough to trail along behind her, but it would also work for
her to just tuck it out of sight into the dress.

I was there when she tried everything on at once for the first
time, the way she had her hair done up like it was for the wedding. She always looks lovely, but she was just so
pretty in all that wedding stuff. It was
cool, and I’m so happy I got to help out with the dresses.

I spent a
lot of time with these people while working on this project, here’s what Flash and my
wonderful friend Sam made me for lunch one day.
YUM. (^ explaining what exactly they did to make it so awesome.) They are great cooks.

We were still working on one of the dresses less than a week
before the wedding (not cutting it close at all, huh?) so I camped out on their
futon. Only actually got a couple hours
of sleep though because me and Sam stayed up until 5 or 6am. Mostly watching old Teen Titans
episodes.

WE ARE AWESOME.

So the wedding was yesterday, and I don’t have many pics yet
because it makes me feel awkward sticking cameras in people’s faces constantly..
but my dear friends took lots of pictures of the reception, and if they would now just be very dear and send them to
me, then I could put them on my blog..*

(this is some of us after the wedding, right before decorating the happy couple's getaway car ;) stickers and a bunch of Mountain Dew cans to drag behind the car... Evajo, Afton, James, Ty, me)

coolest cake ever. Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock. :] not particularly fond of the Big Bang Theory, but I have to admit this is a genius work of art.

annnnd this would be me, working on the wedding present and the card in a friend's car.. on the way there.

Lots of fun, got to show off some swing dancing skills (pronounced
sk-eeels), as in, 3 back flips (among other things) thankyouverymuch. Nailed it.**

Kinda hard to dance with vertically challenged friends though-

(the Chucky-Ts die hard)

(me and Pipsqueak)

(the ever-popular slow dance, with James.. no swing pics)

And I got to wear a new dress
that I made for myself, which will be on the Crash Landing blog soon. ("and there was much rejoicing..(yaay")) And of course, got to hang out with my friends
<3

(James, Sam, me. xo)

*ahem.

**this is the fine print.
I really didn’t have to do much, the guy does all the work. But if you still want to think I’m a ninja,
you go for it.

love,

abbey

P.S. a note to any aspiring DJs:
don’t play crappy music until the very end of the party, it throws
everyone off. If at all convenient, don’t
even bother playing crappy music..

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Been awhile. But I have excellent reasons for it.. Last week was insane, I was seriously not in my house more than a few minutes and to sleep a couple times. More on that later.
My birthday was in April, I’m eighteen now! Woohoo! (I think..)

Pipsqueak’s birthday is the day after mine, she was born ten minutes after midnight :) mom went into labor during my birthday party that year. So we usually have some kind of joined birthday party thing with family and stuff, so that was fun.

My yummy coconut cream birthday pie. Oh yes.

restrain laughter.

Oh yeah, we're party animals. You know we're serious when we break out the party hats and kazoo thingys. This is Flash and my cousin Mitchel.

Love you Mitch. Don't kill me for putting this picture on the internet.

Big stuff happening this year- my grandparents plan to take me to Europe this fall, which is completely INSANE. I’m so excited, I can’t wait to find out which countries we’re going to so I can start studying!!!

And if that wasn’t awesome enough, I’m really REALLY hoping to go to New Zealand for a couple months this winter. Some extremely wonderful and very dear friends of mine live there and I haven’t seen them for about six years now. (and no, they aren’t Hobbits)..

or dinosaurs for that matter... I did this when we were all a lot younger. why? Really not sure.

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I'm 374 1/2 years old, I'm fluent in Mandalorian and pig latin, I have curly hair, I'm clumsy, and I need coffee. I like to make things, I'm obsessed with music and art, I'm a vegetarian and a health nut. I am a Star Wars junkie, I love peanut butter, and I'm not a ninja. I'm (admittedly) border-line obsessive compulsive..and partially insane. I dye my hair with Smurf blood. I like movies and books.I like to be proven wrong, and I like unexpected things. I drink tea religiously.

People Say The Weirdest Things...

* (i'm making tea..)Me- "Do you want some tea, dad?"Dad- "sure. And could you put some--" (i cut him off)Me- "No, I'm not putting bourbon in your tea."(it's been a rough day ;) but for the record, he was just going to ask for stevia..)

* Pipsqueak- "dude! I have this awesome cut on my foot!"(she doesn't like to wear shoes.. I'm honestly not sure why the word 'awesome' was applied to a cut on her foot though....)

* (mom is brushing Pipsqueak's very long hair) Pipsqueak- "AHH!!! Mommy! I'm going to grow dreadlocks like Abbey when I'm big so you can't brush my hair!!!!"(come on, I don't have that many..)

* Dad- "I didn't study business or economics in college.. I studied FREAK-ONOMICS"(...we're all freaks here)

* (I was *trying* to concentrate on my homework, and instead drew a stupid little smiley face on Flash's arm...)

Flash- "Umm wow, it looks happy, sad, and angry all at the same time.."

Me- "Hmm.. It must be a girl"

* (mom walks through the room carrying Jambo, who has just made a mess all over himself and desperately needs a bath..)

Someone- "Ewwwww- Jambo's butt is touching your arm!!"

Flash- "I think I'd rather have horse poop on me than, say, jaguar poop... You know, because horses only eat grass and stuff. It'd be like having dirty grass on me instead of poop."

(I honestly have no idea how this thought entered her head... By the way, dad's answer is her new favorite topic of conversation. Unfortunately. Lets put is this way: A really gross way to explain photosynthesis to a toddler)

* Pipsqueak- "Pause your mouth"

(the remote control's operations were explained, and one of them particularly encouraged... It had the reverse effect)

* Pipsqueak- "You shot a cow!"

(not what you think.... It's something from a video game Flash and dad used to play. Something about an African safari hunt or something)

* Pipsqueak- "There's a noodle in my dress!"

(spaghetti is hard to eat for some people.......)

* Pipsqueak- "Oh crap!"

Me- "Oh crap!"

(ouch... I've realized that young children repeat everything. Flash and mom get quite angry at me whenever they hear something like that fly outta her mouth)

* Dad- "I've just decided to change my name to Nick Fury! HAHAHA"

Mom- "I think you should change it to 'Mick Flurry'"

(dad is in a good mood... And mom is craving ice cream)

* Pipsqueak- "Lookn' PaNub"

(heheh. It's from an old SNL skit with Eddy Murphy as Buckwheat from Little Rascals... A short parody of the song "looking for love")

* Mom- "If we lived in a warmer climate we could grow bananas.."

Pipsqueak- "Can Iclimb a tree?!"

Flash- "It's climb a tree day! Woohoo!"

Mom- "Unnnhhhh"

* Flash- "Oh yeah? Well, does your crotch smell like peanut butter?"

(ok. Obviously this one needs an explanation... Flash loves peanut butter, and he mixed some in with his bowl of ice cream one night. Flash is also a very messy eater, and he dumped peanut butter on his pants. Dad teased him. There you go)

* Flash- "I think I have a bug stuck in my braces..."

(wow. Yeah that's Flash)

* Dad's prayer- "......and please protect the ____ family, help them to recover from the earthquake and protect them from other earthquakes, volcanoes erupting,"

-suppressed snorting

"tsunamis,"

-giggles

"hurricanes,"

-laughter

and everything else that goes with living on a volcano..."

(in our family, some jokes die hard... Some even make their way into a prayer occasionally)

* Flash- "Why do you guys like that stuff? It's not music, it's a migraine."

(he was speaking to me and a friend about our like of metal and occasional screamo)

* Flash's modification to the previous quote- "Why are you guys listening to that migraine on a train?! Turn it off!"

(speaking to me, the same friend, and another.. I think I like this one better ;) )

* Pipsqueak- "You can't get me!...... You can't get me!!.... can you?"

(she like to play something like 'tag', problem is, me and Flash can't be bothered chasing her around the house as often as she'd like. So she'll say "can't get me" a couple times and run a few steps while looking over her shoulder, hoping to get us to run after her and tickle her. When we reply with only an unsatisfactory "yep, you're right", or "mmhm", she practically sits on us to give us tempting "head start" in the chase)

* Jambo- "Burp.....Burp.....Burp"

(baby's first words... How charming)

* Pipsqueak- "Peace dude-bathtub!"

(heh. When she was younger I taught her to say 'peace dude', she liked it, and added her own little twists... Bathtub was her favorite. ?)

* Pipsqueak- "Rock on!!"

(guilty.... Flash had a cow)

* Someone- "Hello dear, aren't you cute. And how old are you?"

Pipsqueak- "I'm (peace symbol) peace years old"

* Pipsqueak- "Kill the doctor"

(someone was discussing a fictional book they were reading, and apparently some doctor was killed in said book. She picked up on part of the conversation)

* Pipsqueak- "I need some muscit back here dad!"

(She was riding in the backseat of the car and hollered up that she wanted some music- good girl. It came out sounding more like "mewsgitt")

* Pipsqueak- "Look it's a long-haired dad!"

(She means a spider... Around here they are called 'daddy long legs'. Why she reversed it and exchanged legs for hair is uncertain)

* Mom, to dad- "Do you feel like discussing our calender right now?"

Pipsqueak- "Disgusting?"

* Dad- "Wisdom is like tentacles, it spreads out and grabs on to everything."

(good old dad. Proverb meets humor)

* Dad, in reference to teaching Pipsqueak- "We really need to work on being a better team, guys....."